You.com review: Search, research and open-weight model APIs for AI apps and agents, priced per call
Search, research and open-weight model APIs for AI apps and agents, priced per call
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What You.com does
You.com offers infrastructure for AI builders: a set of APIs that give applications live web data, plus a router for running open-weight language models. The search side includes a Web Search API, a Contents API that turns known URLs into Markdown or HTML, an Answer API that returns a cited answer from a single call, and a Research API with five effort levels, from Research Lite to Research Frontier. A Finance Research API applies the same engine to financial questions.
The newer Inference Router lets developers call models from providers such as Kimi, DeepSeek and GLM through one OpenAI-compatible API. According to the site, requests run first on You.com's own capacity and fail over to backup providers, backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA. The vendor also states that models are US-hosted, with zero data retention and per-key spend caps.
Pricing is usage-based rather than a subscription. A Free tier gives 100 Web Search API queries per day through the MCP server without an API key, account or credit card. Pay as you go has no minimums, no seats and no platform fee. Inference Router prices vary by model. Enterprise teams can request custom pricing, higher rate limits and dedicated support.
- Web Search API with real-time web and news results
- Contents API for URL to Markdown or HTML
- Answer API with cited answers
- Research API with five effort levels
- Finance Research API
- Inference Router with one OpenAI-compatible API
- Multi-provider failover
- Zero data retention and spend caps
Pros and cons
Pros
- Free tier of 100 Web Search API queries per day with no API key, account or credit card
- Pay as you go has no minimums, no seats and no platform fee
- Several endpoints: search, contents, answer, research and finance research
- Inference Router offers a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention and US-hosted models
- Spend caps and daily usage visibility on every API key
Cons
- Pricing is per call, so total monthly cost depends on usage and is hard to predict from the page
- Inference Router prices vary by model and are not stated as a single figure
- Free tier is limited to 100 queries a day via MCP
- Only API products are described; no apps or extensions are stated on the pages
Our take
You.com fits developers and teams building AI agents or RAG applications who want live web data and open-weight model access through APIs, and who prefer paying per call instead of per seat. The free MCP tier lets you prototype without signing up. It does not fit people looking for a consumer chat app or a flat monthly subscription, since the pages describe only API products and per-call prices. Inference Router pricing varies by model and is not listed as a single number, so check the model pricing before committing.
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Frequently asked questions
Does You.com have a free plan?
Yes. The Free tier offers 100 Web Search API queries per day through the MCP server, with no API key, account or credit card.
Is there a platform fee or seat pricing?
The Pay as you go plan states no minimums, no seats and no platform fee.
What uptime does Inference Router promise?
The site states a 99.9% uptime SLA with multi-provider failover.
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